2. Performance isnít that bad, not great, but not terrible. Graphics settings donít seem to make a lot of difference, with the exception of viewing distance, which slows things a at max for some maps. The pacific levels, however, dip to slideshow territory. Must be all the water. I prefer the desert maps anyway!

i'm running the same mhz comp as you, but i do fine on water levels... infact they're rather smooth. Performance offline is good, but wait till u go online.

check what sound quality you're running. if you bump up the quality of sound, your performance may go down quite a bit.

I've got the sound on the lowest settings, so I guess I'll have to live with it.

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...there seems to be a problem with the ground textures, and sometimes the tank textures. When I'm walking around the ground tends to flash between the normal texture and black polygons at seemingly random times.

This happens sometimes if I move my mouse too fast. Basically the Vid card doesn't have time to render everything going on.

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Also, in one of the allied tanks (don't know which one, it has a rifle pivot up top for a 2nd player, and a 1st player cannon that only rotates probably 15 degrees left or right from dead straight view) if you swivel the cannon all the way to the left, a large black polygon starts flashing on the left side of the tank view (this is from the inside of the tank view) completely blocking the tank texture, and partly obscuring the actual view. If there is a way to take a screenshot in BF:1942, I'll try and get one tonight or tomorrow to demonstrate my point. I guess I should try and turn the texture quality down a notch as well, and see if that fixes it. Oh, this was on 10.3.4, but it also happens in 10.3.5.

Lowest settings possible, lowest resolution, all other apps quit... on a 1 GHz G4 with a Radeon 9800 with 1024 megs of memory. This sucks ass, for this old of a game. I even reinstalled the game, then my whole system.

I have to think there must be a bug somewhere, or that I'm missing something huge.

I played on an upgraded 1ghz G4 for awhile. I never really payed attention to framerates on it. As long as I stayed on servers with small groups of people the game was playable. It was the presence of large groups of people that seemed to slow the game down.

It also seems to be map dependent too. Urban maps really got choppy on that machine. The more open maps with large hills played nicely for me.

...there seems to be a problem with the ground textures, and sometimes the tank textures. When I'm walking around the ground tends to flash between the normal texture and black polygons at seemingly random times.

This happens sometimes if I move my mouse too fast. Basically the Vid card doesn't have time to render everything going on.

Hmm...it happens to me usually when I'm just running along, and not even changing my view that much. I doubt its that the video card can't keep up.

...there seems to be a problem with the ground textures, and sometimes the tank textures. When I'm walking around the ground tends to flash between the normal texture and black polygons at seemingly random times.

This happens sometimes if I move my mouse too fast. Basically the Vid card doesn't have time to render everything going on.

Hmm...it happens to me usually when I'm just running along, and not even changing my view that much. I doubt its that the video card can't keep up.

BF1942 is rather proccessor intensive. I can play around with the resolution and receive no frame rate loss. you'll need alot more mhz, than 800, to play w/o the "bug".

...there seems to be a problem with the ground textures, and sometimes the tank textures. When I'm walking around the ground tends to flash between the normal texture and black polygons at seemingly random times.

This happens sometimes if I move my mouse too fast. Basically the Vid card doesn't have time to render everything going on.

Hmm...it happens to me usually when I'm just running along, and not even changing my view that much. I doubt its that the video card can't keep up.

BF1942 is rather proccessor intensive. I can play around with the resolution and receive no frame rate loss. you'll need alot more mhz, than 800, to play w/o the "bug".

The problem with that logic is that I have a Dual 1.8Ghz G5 :-D This didn't happen before on my Dual 1Ghz G4, but I didn't have all the graphics options turned up. I didn't have time last night to test out the texture quality settings, but hopefully will have time tonight.